In this opportunity i want to talk about the Mousterian, a culture within the period of the European Middle Paleolithic. I choose this topic because i study archaeology and is fascinating to me the first developments in technology.
The Mousterian technological complex is associated with the Homo neanderthalensis, born 125,000 years ago and survived up to 40,000 years ago, or 30,000 in places like the Iberian Peninsula.
This complex consists in a lithic industry, where tools were carved in silex rocks and quartzite, the carved used the Levalois technique, a distinctive type of stone carving. They created tips, knives, scrapers and hammers.
This kind of industry is considered the “Mode 3”, because is the third oldest industry made by the genus Homo, behind Acheulan and Oldowan industries.
Its interesting to me the study of this things, like the types of Stone tools, is what gives a ligth in the understanding about the time when humans differed from the rest of the animals, in addition the mousterian is interesting because was made for our close relatives: The Neanderthals. All this could make us reflect about the great closeness that this genus had of ours, as a lithic industry such as the Mousterian is quite complex.
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